Control apparatus

Abstract

A control apparatus includes a lever configured to be tilted, a first resistor extending in a first direction on a surface of a board, a first operatively connected member configured to rotate as the lever is tilted, and a first holder holding a first slider and sliding the first slider on the first resistor by moving in the first direction as the first operatively connected member rotates. The first drive transmitting portion includes a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first engaging portion integrated with the first operatively connected member and including a pair of clamping pieces that clamps the first protrusion from opposite sides. The first protrusion includes a protruding portion having a third direction component perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction and protruding between the pair of clamping pieces.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A control apparatus comprising:
 a lever configured to be tilted;   a strip-shaped first resistor extending in a first direction on a surface of a board;   a first operatively connected member configured to rotate as the lever is tilted; and   a first holder holding a first slider, the first holder sliding the first slider on a surface of the first resistor by moving in the first direction via a first drive transmitting portion as the first operatively connected member rotates,   wherein the first drive transmitting portion includes:
 a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and 
 a first engaging portion integrated with the first operatively connected member and including a pair of clamping pieces that clamps the first protrusion from opposite sides in the first direction, and 
   wherein the first protrusion includes a protruding portion having a third direction component perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction and protruding between the pair of clamping pieces.   
     
     
         2 . The control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein, when the first operatively connected member is at a predetermined maximum tilt angle, the protruding portion protrudes to a region not in contact with the inner surface of the outer clamping piece and nearer to a rotation shaft of the first operatively connected member than an outer inner end that is an end of an inner surface of an outer clamping piece of the pair of clamping pieces in the third direction. 
     
     
         3 . The control apparatus according to  claim 2 ,
 wherein, with the pair of clamping pieces not clamping the first protrusion, in a state in which a distance between one of the pair of clamping pieces and another of the clamping pieces is smaller than a diameter of the first protrusion, and a gap between the pair of clamping pieces extends along the third direction, one of the clamping pieces elastically is deformed to clamp the first protrusion.   
     
     
         4 . The control apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the protruding portion protrudes toward the rotation shaft of the first operatively connected member in the third direction beyond the outer inner end in a state in which the outer clamping piece of the first operatively connected member at the maximum tilt angle is most outwardly elastically deformed. 
     
     
         5 . The control apparatus according to  claim 2 ,
 wherein, as seen along the second direction,
 a contour of the first protrusion is circular on a side facing the board in the third direction, and 
 a contour of the protruding portion protrudes beyond an imaginary line of the circle extending toward the rotation shaft of the first operatively connected member in the third direction. 
   
     
     
         6 . The control apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein, as seen along the second direction, the first protrusion includes a recessed portion provided outside the protruding portion in the first direction and having a contour passing inside the imaginary line.